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Eddie Sue Asserts Class In Bay State Kindergarten Closes Fast After Being Off None Too Xell to Turn Back Im Marie By AVERY BROWN Staff Correspondent , SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass., May 31. — Caught in a tangle right after the break, but then surging through the stretch when finally clear, F. W. Hoopers Eddie Sue, brown filly by Education out of Wise Sun, won the ,000 Bay State Kindergarten Stakes, for two-year-olds, before 23,150 fans today. The Hooper filly was much the best as she beat Jay-Bob Stables Im Marie by ,two- and one-half lengths, with W. L. Huntley, Jrs Mr. Songbird a neck behind Im Marie. Fourth, six lengths farther back, was Ann TJhlars Anns Love. , Slightly favored over Mr. Songbird, although the equivalent odds were the same, Eddie Sue won the ,710 first money in :59, three-fifths off the track record for the five furlongs. She did it with almost ridiculous ease with Harold Keene in the saddle as she came down the stretch to make up at least five lengths. Up to that point it had been a tworhorse race between Mr. Songbird, unbeaten ih his northern starts, and Im Marie, the steadily-improved filly who was striving for her third straight triumph. When the start came, Darrell Madden brought Mr., Songbird smartly out of the inside post position and a two-length jump on the rest of the field. For about 50 yards there was a bunch-up behind Mr. Songbird, but then Marshall Wilder, rider of Im Marie, had that filly in stride and she moved right up to a challenging position. At the three-eighths pole, these two were out front by themselves and they came into the stretch lapped, but with Im Marie yielding about half a length, regaining that deficit and then moving slightly to the front. These two were so far in the van that it looked as if the blond Wilder, a New Hampshire youngster, was to win his second consecutive stake of the holiday weekend. Only the dav before. Wilder had been astride T. M. Smiths Simms, winner of the Tomasello Memorial Handicap. But .then out of the clouds came Eddie Suet just roaring home to win as if this were the easiest thing in the world. It was her third straight victory for trainer Charley Stevenson, her only defeat/being by H. H. Horns Nalaca in the mud. Nalaca finished last today.
